Reddit reviews No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

I agree with this list of Top 10 Documentaries on Mountaineering. Not exactly on point for what you wanted. Not sure it really exists at this point.

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I really liked Meru. If you don't mind reading here are a few books that got me into it:

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Into Thin Air.

No Shortcuts to the Top.

The Climb.

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Training Books:

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Training for New Alpinism

Climbing: Training for Peak Performance.

You probably know this, but Ed Viesturs wrote a book "No Shortcuts to the Top" about his experience.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0767924711

I enjoyed Ed Viesturs book: No Shortcuts to the Top, it was a self focused memoir, yet he shares his views and opinions in a way that came off genuine and down to earth. It is probably different than something you are writing since the focus of the book is entirely on something that made him very famous (First American to climb all 8000m peaks)

I like John Krakauer's books. Into Thin Air was a great firsthand account of a major disaster. It has some controversy, but like anything else firsthand accounts rely on the writers memory of events and those can change wildly from person to person.

Into the Wild is obviously another one of his more famous works. I liked it writing style and level of research, but I disliked the man the book was written about with a passion. Hardly the writers fault there though.

Ed Viesturs, the first American to summit all fourteen of the world's 8000 meter peaks without using bottled oxygen, describes Annapunra as the most dangerous to climb, due to its unpredictability. He wrote a great book, No Shortcuts to the Top which chronicles his journeys. l'm no mountain climber, by any stretch of the imagination, (l don't even climb ladders), but l enjoyed the book